Malladi Brothers @ Nadasurabhi Annual Festival 15 Nov 2009 November 16, 2009
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Vocal : Malladi Brothers
Violin : Mysore M Nagaraj
Mrudangam : Arjunkumar
Ganjira : N Amrut
Songlist :
01 sAmi daya jUDa ( varNAm ) - kEdAragauLa – Thiruvottiyur Thyagayya ( O )
02 yOchanA – darbAr – Thyagaraja ( S )
03 vidulaku mrokkEda – mAyAmALavagauLa – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S )
neraval & swara @ ‘kamalA gaurI vAgIshvari vidhi’
04 bhajarE rE chitta – kalyANi – Muthuswami Dikshitar ( S )
05 maNavi naLagincha rAdatE - naLinakAnthi – Thyagaraja
06 giripai nelakonna – sahAna – Thyagaraja ( A,S,T )
07 RTP - ranjani ( ranjanimala rAgamalika swara) - chatusra jati triputa khanda nadai ??
ragam & tanam in Ranjani
pallavi line ‘ mAmava mahAdEva ranjani pankaja lochani’
ragamalika swaras in janaranjani, srIranjani , mEgharanjani, sumanEsaranjani, shivaranjani and ranjani
08 rAma rAma rAma sItA rAma ennirO – tilang – Purandara Dasa
09 muddugArE yashOda – kurinji – annamacharya
10 slokam ( vandE shambhu…) – sindhubhairavi
chandrasEkhara eesa – sindhubhairavi - ?
11 patiki hArati rE – surutti – Thyagaraja
mangaLam kOsalEndra ( slOkam) – madhyamAvathi
Another beautiful concert to end the weeklong Annual Music Festival at Nadasurabhi. One complete concert in evrey aspect. To me, this was one of the most co-ordinated concert between all four participants ( five infact, with two vocalists).
From the humming of the kEdAragaula , it was evident that this is going to be a treat. The concert picked up with the rarely heard krithi of Thyagaraja in Mayamalavagaula. Sriram explained the krithi and its significance, before the rendering. Neraval and Swara were also very good. A kalyani krithi and nalinakanthi followed in quick succession, before Ravi started an elaborated alapana in sahAna. Giripai, immortalised by the great MDR was to follow after a brilliant violin return by Mysore Nagaraj.
Arjunkumar and Amrut both followed superbly throught out, did a fantastic tani avartanam. Amrut, especially was fantastic. They announced a short pallavi in janaranjaka ‘ranjani mala’. Both alapana and the tanam was good albeit short. As espected a slew of ranjani’s followed one after other in the ragamalika swaras, ending with the raga name. The concert closed with the usual sets of Purandara Dasa, annamacharya krithis.
Two words on the series. I could attend only 4 of them and I could say that this years series has been a treat to the listeners. Each of the concerts were brilliant ( I heard form others that those I missed were also very good). Despite the few disruptions ( power , the amplifications), the event hosted out of a new auditorium was pretty decent. There were no dreaded mid concert speeches. Most of the concerts began on time ( except on Saturday, when Krishna was caught on a traffic jam) and were generally well attended. A fine effort from the organisers.
T M Krishna @ Nadasurabhi Annual Festival , 14ov 2009 November 15, 2009
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Vocal : T M Krishna
Violin : H K Venkatram
Mrudangam : H S Sudheendra
Ghatam : Giridhar Udupa
Songlist:
01 dEvi pAvanE – sAvEri – Swathi Thirunal ( S )
02 sogasu jUDa taramA – kannaDagauLa – Thyagaraja ( S )
03 kanaka shaila vihAriNi – punnAgavarALi – Shyama Shastri ( A,N )
neraval @ ‘ shyAmaLAmbikE bhavAbdhi taraNe shyAmakrishNa paripAlini janani ‘
04 sadA tava pAda sannidhim – shaNmukhapriya – Balamuralikrishna
05 RTP – kAdAragauLa - tisra triputa 4 kaLai
pallavi line ‘ sArasadaLa nayanA harE srIkrishNa’
ragamalika swaras in thODi , srIranjini , behAg , jayanthasrI,kEdAragauLA
05b tani Avartanam
06 rAse harimiha vihita vilAsam – rAgamAlika ( mOhanam,vasantha,yamunAkalyANi,sindhubhairavi) – Jayadeva
07 nanda gOpAla – yamunAkalyANi ? – Muthuswami Dikshitar
08 vandEmAtaram – dEsh – Bankim Chandra Chatterji
09 bhujaga shAyinO – yadukula kAmbOji – Swathi Thirunal
An outstanding concert yesterday at the Nadasurabhi festival. T M Krishna the team presented a scintillating concert, depite a small hiccup , in the form of power interruptions and a delayed start.
Concert started with the saveri krithi of Swathi Thirunal. Krishna sang the swaras in 2 speeds alternating between slow and fast paced singing. Initially violing followed the same sequence, later switching to the the opposite, thus making it a slow and fast paced jugalbandi. One could call this a gimmick and against the aesthetics, but I liked it. The kannadagaula krithi was not an often heard krithi, and krishna exlpained that this tala has to be called ’tisra chapu’ and not rUpakam with some explanations.
Punnagavarali was a surprice. His typical slow and deliberate alapana with longinsh phrases was very good. So was the krithi and the neraval. Outstanding stuff. Shanmukhapriya was the fast paced filler. The disruption of power started as soon as the Shanmukhapriya krithi was over. However, Krishna did not hesitate to start the alapana of Kedaragaula and what a marvel. H K Venkatram alsohas to play his turn without the help of the amplification. The power was still at bay. With the help of oil lamps and a couple of emergency lights, he started tanam. Luckily power was restored during tanam. Outstanding pallavi followed set to a very very slow talam. The accompaniment , I should say, displayed very good support during this pallavi.
H K Venkatram was very good through out. Sudheendra dn Udupa did their part good, despite too many slow krithis. The tani avartanam too was pretty good. Post main section was moer to do with the user request, he had received on mail. This was one fantastic concert to the capacity audience.
T N Seshagopalan @ Nadasurabhi Annual Music Festival 11 Nov,2009 November 12, 2009
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Vocal : T N Seshagopalan
Violin : C N Chandrasekharan
Mrudangam : K V Anand
Ganjira : B Purushotham
Songlist :
01 sarasijanAbha (varNam) – kAmbOji – Swathi Thirunal ( S )
02 sAdhinchanE – Arabhi – Thyagaraja
03 ninne nera nammi nAnurA – pantuvarALi – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S )
neraval & swara @ ‘ vEda shAstra purANa vidyalacE bhEda’
04 budhamAshrayAmi satatam – nAttakurinji - Muthuswamy Dikshitar ( A , followed by slokam ‘Priyangulika syamam roopena prathimam budham…
soumyam soumya gunobedham’) * slokam detail from Pramod.
05 soundararAjam AshrayE – brindAvana sArang – Muthuswamy Dikshitar ( A, S )
06 evvarE rAmayya – gAngEyabhUshaNi – Thyagaraja
07 akshayalinga vibhO – SankarAbharaNam – Muthuswamy Dikshitar ( A,N,S,T )
….
I had to leave at this point. Not sure what was sung post this.
A very good concert by T N Seshagopal yesterday. This time, there was no trouble with voice and it was clear from the varnam itself. He was able to go through all the high octave singing and the low octave with relative ease and at will. Varnam had a set of swara with some 3 kala swara singing. Sadhinchane was a filler. Pantuvarali was the first alapana and the neraval and swara followed his typical patterns, followed amicably by C N chandrasekharan. Nattakkurinji and brindavana sarang followed with a shorter alapana for the former and a detailed ’superb’ alapana for the latter. Soundararajam was very moving adding some intrinsic and beautiful set of swaras. Gangeyabhushani , now becoming regular in concerts here ( Sanjay taken this up as the main at Malleswaram) had some interesting sangatis at the pallavi line.
Sankarabharanam alapana was superb. The usual full throated high octave alapana to the soft low phrases, the grahabhedam ( I realised only after he returned to the main raga !) , all were there. Chandrasekharan in his return was pretty good too. I had to leave , when he started the Akshayalinga vibho.. I heard that he had an elaborate rendering of the krithi.
Apart from my early departure, the other issue was to do with the audio. There was some issue of clarity and the voice was not decipherable at times. The organisers on their part wsa taking feedback from variuos corners and did try to get this corrected to an extent. It was a very good concert, by the master.
Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi at Nadasurabhi Annual Festival, Koramangala 09 nov 2009 November 10, 2009
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Violin : Lalgudi GJR Krishnan & Vijayalakshmi
Mrudangam : M T Rajakesari
Ghatam : G Omkar
Songlist:
( I heard they played a bauli varnam , arabhi and sudhadhanyAsi before I reached the venue)
04 sankari nIvE – bEgaDa – Subbaraya Shastri ( A,S )
05 srI vaLLi dEvasEnApatE – natabhairavi – Papanasam Sivan
06 endukO nI manasu – kalyANi – Thyagaraja ( A,N,S,T )
neraval @ ‘ rAgarahita shrI rAma inta parAku jEyaka’
07 ayyE metha kadinam – rAgamAlika – Gopalakrishna Bharati
08 ?? – sindhubhairavi
09 thillAna – dEsh – Lalgudi Jayaraman
10 mangaLam
By the time I reached the venue, they were beginning the begada krithi. The rain and the traffic snarl made the 5 km drive to eat way 40 mins. The new venue did not make it easy for locating and getting the vehicle parked in the rain. I like their playing, hence no complaints after I seated. I am not a great fan of Kalyani, hence I cant comment much. But the swara patterns, alternated between them was superb.
There was an expectation for a short RTP, but the time was already late. They settled in for few after main krithis, before closing with a desh thillana , which was very good.
The venue at the St.Francis shcool is pretty good. The hall is big with sufficient ventilation. This time, the audio arrangement was also good ( not echoing as it used to at the Bank of Baroda building). The stage was decorated very well and there is ample parking space. Hope they stick to this venue.
T M Krishna @ Suswaralaya Music , Banashankari 08 Nov 2009 November 9, 2009
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Vocal : T M Krishna
Violin : H K Venkatram
Mrudangam : T K Murthy
Ghatam : Trichy Murali
Songlist:
01 era nApai ( varNam) – thODi - Patnam Subramanya Iyer
02 bhuvini dAsuDane – srIranjani – Thyagarja ( O,N,S )
neraval & swara @ ‘ nI padamulE gati tyAgarAjanuta’
03 eTula brOtuvO – chakravAkam – Thyagaraja ( A,S )
04 kanukoNTini – bilahari – Thyagaraja ( O,S )
05 gIthArthamu – surutti – Thyagaraja ( A,N,T )
neraval @ ‘ hari vara rUpuDu harahaya vinutuDu’
06 RTP – tarangiNi – tisra triputa , 2 kaLai
pallavi line ‘ mAdhava tarangiNi guruguha mAtuLa ranjani’
ragamalika swara in Anandabhairavi &bhairavam ( anandabhairavi&bhairavi in violin reply), behAg ( behAg&hamIrkalyANi in violin reply)
07 nirai mathi mukham ( thirupugazh) – hamsAnandi – ?
08 mangaLam – saurAshtram – Thyagaraja
A fine concert by T M Krishna and team yesterday to conclude the 10th Suswaralaya Mucis Festival. The concert started almost 45 minutes late after the felicitation of T K Murthy and an early taniavartanam by the organiser in the form of ‘thanks giving’. The team was eager to get on withthe concert, and one could see TMK gesturing to Sudheendra, to get it over with.
Concert started traditional way with a varnam 
. Sriranjani krithi was the warmer, with some good neraval and swaras. The first alapana came with chakravakam, and I thought HKV did a splendid job there. Bilahari , which followed next had some brilliant swara singing, with an apt support by violin and T K Murthy. Surutti main was leisurely paced, with an elaborate neraval. Surprisingly, he turned to T K Murthy after the neraval , without singing swaras.
T K Murthy, started the concert bit loud, got into the groove pretty soon. What followed since then was awesome. His soft finger touches, some of the patterns that he exhibited and executed were amazing. During taniavartanam too, he was all class, to the praise of every one in the stage as well as in the auditorium.
Tarangini pallavi was a surprice. Krishna announced that he will sing a short pallavi. Tarangini alapana and the tanam were excellent. So was the return by H K Venkatram. There was no trikalam, but the ragamalika swaras were very nice. Krishna moved from tarangini to anandabhairavi easing into bhairavam. On his return, HKV played Anandabhairavi and bhairavi. The second set of swaras saw him playing from behAg to hamIr kalyAni ( kind of grahabhedam ) and returning back to behag.
There was again a round of speech, curtailing the post RTP tukkadas. It was already late and Krishna closed the concert with a tirupugazh before the mangalam. Overall a fine concert.
